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Blood Amines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Derek Richter  and
Margaret Lee
Derek Richter
Affiliation:
Central Pathological Laboratory (L.C.C.), West Park Hospital, Epsom, and Mill Hill Emergency Hospital, London, N.W. 7
Margaret Lee
Affiliation:
Central Pathological Laboratory (L.C.C.), West Park Hospital, Epsom, and Mill Hill Emergency Hospital, London, N.W. 7
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In the normal individual toxic amines produced by bacterial action in the gut or elsewhere are readily destroyed by the amine oxidase, an enzyme which is present in the liver, intestine and other organs (Richter, 1938; Blaschko, Richter and Schlossmann, 1937). This process of detoxication is normally very rapid and efficient, but it has been suggested that in certain pathological conditions the detoxicating system may be defective, giving rise to an abnormally high level of toxic amines in the blood (Quastel, 1937).

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 88 , Issue 370 , January 1942 , pp. 127 - 133
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1942 

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